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Breakpoint

Butler and Postmodernism

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

 The social framework invasive in today's culture seeks only to destroy.

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With the one minute look at culture from a Christian worldview. I'm John Stone Street with the point.

0:04.6

The most influential academic you've never heard of, Judith Butler has now published a popular level book that left, even the left, frustrated.

0:13.0

According to one scathing review in the Atlantic,

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which was titled,

0:15.9

Not Everything is About Gender,

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Butler has inherently contradictory thinking.

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Quote, in every other context, Butler works to demolish the idea of the

0:24.6

eternal human. Everything is contingent except when it comes to being

0:28.8

transgender. For Butler, only trans ideology is not up for debate.

0:33.8

Where very few people will ever read postmodern thinkers like Butler and fewer will

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understand them, but it's important to know the contradictions about their ideas.

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In the postmodern mind, nothing's eternal or universal except the idea. the contingent and nothing is true except the idea that nothing is true.

0:54.0

It's why postmodernism and its terrible stepchildren cannot build anything.

0:58.0

They can only destroy traditions, norms, civilizations, and ultimately lives.

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For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street.

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